The Piñata concert series returns to Barcelona this fall with a careful program featuring names such as Mark Guilliana, Youn Sun Nah, Gaby Moreno, Hiromi, Julian Lage and The Bad Plus:
The music cycle began its programming for the autumn months in Barcelona, consolidating itself in the city with a diverse offer that intertwines genres, origins and experience.
Ahead there are 14 concerts that will pass through emblematic venues of the city: from the tearing of the acoustic folk of the American Ondara to the soul jazz of the future of the acclaimed Hiatus Kaiyote or the experienced Mark Giuliana, one of the most famous drummers in the world.
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One of the most renowned drummers to emerge from the world jazz scene. Someone said of his music that it was like mixing Elvin Jones and Art Blakey with an 808 drum machine and then dividing it by J Dilla and multiplying it by Squarepusher. Not a bad way to define a man who has played for David Bowie, Brad Mehldau, Avishai Cohen, or Matisyahu, and who has fostered a genuine interest in jazz, electronics, or whatever adventurous rhythmic sophistication has come his way. Born in New Jersey in 1980, composer, educator, producer and founder of the independent record label Beat Music Productions, he visits us leading his most classic quartet. | | |
Youn Sun Nah has built a solid career of more than a dozen albums marked by a unique sensitivity, with vocal jazz as a starting point, but with an enormous ability to build his own song tower, as Leonard Cohen would say, to also starting from folk and the avant-garde. His version of “Enter Sandman” (Metallica) was already an indication, and albums like the recent waking world (2022) are conclusive proof of his talent. Jazz festivals such as Montreux or the International Jazz Day in Havana (also attest to his ability to shape a world of his own, made up of sonorities from very different origins. | | |
Guatemalan Gaby Moreno embodies, like few other artists, a global and Pan-American idea of music, which feeds on blues, jazz, soul or r’n’b, but also on border sounds, boleros, joropos, calypso, tropicalism or songwriting . The best example of this was the extraordinary Spangled! (2019), an album in which, handling himself with ease in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and with the company of the legendary arranger and composer Van Dyke Parks or the no less legendary Jackson Browne, he erected a monument to Latin American musical wealth. A pulsating and colorful tapestry of sound that was a milestone in a career spanning more than a decade, | | |
Japanese born in 1979, she learned to play the piano at the age of eight, got into jazz at the age of eight, met Chick Corea at the age of 17 and soon joined Berklee. She has everything, then, to be a jazz virtuoso. But all that would be useless if her five studio albums and her concerts didn’t ooze a very strong personality. The one of whom she is handled with ease by jazz, but also by classical, the influences of progressive rock or fusion music. Silver Lining Suite (2021), conceived as a personal balm to cope with the rigors of a pandemic that is (fortunately) past, is the last great test of his talent. | | |
Master of the guitar, since he stood out as a child prodigy (when he was only eight years old) and endorsed it at Stanford University, Sonoma University and Berklee College. But it would be of little use to him if he hadn’t coordinated perfectly with drummer Dave King and bassist Jorge Roeder on records as fantastic as squint (2021), his Blue Note debut, now continued with View With A Room (2022), in which Brill Frisell joins the trio. Grammy nominations for best instrumental album and collaborations with Scott Colley or Kenny Wollesen mark the career of this musician from New Jersey, a master of the strings but also a master of instrumental composition and its different textures. | | |
Surely no other project has done more than The Bad Plus to bridge the gap between avant-garde jazz and rock. His instrumental versions of classics by Nirvana, Aphex Twin, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Ornette Coleman, Pixies, Tears for Fears, Neil Young, David Bowie, Yes, Interpol or The Flaming Lips are as famous as his albums of his own compositions, in a brilliant career spanning thirteen albums since 2000, Now they have become a quartet, after the departure of pianist Orrin Evans (who had in turn replaced Ethan Iverson), and The Bad Plus is currently made up of bassist Reid Anderson, drummer Dave King (both founding members), tenor sax Chris Speed, and guitarist Ben Monder. | | |
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